Professional Courses
Industry-relevant training in Business, Technology, and Design to help professionals and graduates upskill for real-world careers.
Categories
Interactive Games
Fun, engaging games to boost memory, math fluency, typing speed, and English skills—perfect for learners of all ages.
Typing
Memory
Math
English Adventures
Knowledge
Enroll to start learning
You’ve not yet enrolled in this course. Please enroll for free to listen to audio lessons, classroom podcasts and take practice test.
Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.
Question 1
Easy
What is the primary purpose of a memory buffer register?
💡 Hint: Think about the flow of data between CPU and memory.
Question 2
Easy
What does the address bus do?
💡 Hint: Consider how instructions locate data.
Practice 4 more questions and get performance evaluation
Interactive Quizzes
Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.
Question 1
What is the function of the address bus?
- Transport data to CPU
- Transfer memory addresses
- Store data
💡 Hint: Consider what tells the CPU where to look for data.
Question 2
A very wide memory organization may lead to inefficiency.
- True
- False
💡 Hint: Think about reading multiple instructions at once.
Solve 2 more questions and get performance evaluation
Challenge Problems
Push your limits with challenges.
Question 1
How might architecting a local computer system with 4 chips each of 1k lead to efficiency versus having one 4k chip?
💡 Hint: Think about how one large memory chip may impact instruction processing times.
Question 2
Given a setup with two memory banks, each 2k, how would you optimize data access for speed?
💡 Hint: Consider how spreading out access could lead to better performance.
Challenge and get performance evaluation